A team from the University of Arizona has made a startling new discovery about the formation of Pluto and its moon. Published ...

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time in July 2015. Scientists are astonished by the incredible features they've observed on the dwarf ...

New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, with a very brief icy ...

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Pluto (smaller sphere) and its moon Charon are the first guideposts of the Kuiper Belt. They may help reveal why planets long ago stopped forming in the outer solar system. Illustration by Ron ...

Pluto is a mystery to scientists. Speculation abounds as to whether it is a planet in its own right, part a double planet with its companion Charon, a large asteroid or a burnt-out comet.

But on Charon, Pluto's nearest moon, they found this most familiar of geological features. There was more, on Pluto itself, that recalled the American mid-west. Dark streaks on Pluto's plains ...

Scientists are hoping to use the craters dotting Pluto’s and Charon’s surfaces to take a survey of the Kuiper belt population and reconstruct how it has changed over time. Although tricky to ...

In June 2016, NASA released a new photo of Charon, one of Pluto's moons, which shows a deep crack that is actually longer and deeper than the Grand Canyon. Produced by Arielle Berger. Original ...

There's no problem, however, with ... Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System Jan. 7, 2025 — A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and ...

Instead of a typical planet-moon setup, Pluto and Charon became a binary system. They circle a shared point in space, locked in a delicate, endless orbit. Their strange gravitational dance has ...